Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 741

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     is a responsible person for a childcare service; and

        (b)     subjects a child being cared for by the service to unreasonable discipline.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (2)     In this section:

"unreasonable discipline "includes—

        (a)     physical punishment; or

        (b)     any behaviour management strategy likely to cause emotional or physical harm to a child.

Examples

1     smacking

2     yelling

3     using threatening or humiliating language